Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 12/08/22: Another Winter Wave. Cases will for a time double or triple from where they are. Combined with the flu and RSV, this will mean that while our health care systems will hold, they will be under substantial strain that impacts quality of care. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 11/24/22: Thanks for Good Health (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: What's The Deal With Elon Musk and Twitter? At the end of long saga well-covered in hilarious fashion by Matt Levine, Elon Musk has purchased Twitter. He then began doing things. (Musk Buys Twitter) (more)

aka flu vaccine

primate/anal insult - see Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy

Mike Caulfield: The Annotation Layer as Fact-Checking and Context Marketplace: A Proposal. A lot of our thinking about giving articles a “fact-checking” context has been about automated, centralized, closed approaches. (more)

encouraging growth/sustenance of a Virtual Community; cf Community Moderation (more)

On Internet websites that invite users to post comments, content moderation is the process of detecting contributions that are irrelevant, obscene, illegal, harmful, or insulting with regards to useful or informative contributions. The purpose of content moderation is to remove or apply a warning label to problematic content or allow users to block and filter content themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_moderation cf social media, user-generated content, blog comment, community management

Zvi Mowshowitz research biz (more)

What are Twitter's usage stats? (more)

Sometimes refers to "A-List" member, sometimes to nodes that are key to maintaining flow across other nodes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernode_(networking) (more)

EFF: The Fediverse Could Be Awesome (if we don’t screw it up). How the Fediverse Can Get it Right. (meh I'm dubious about all their details.) (more)

Mastodon Growth Numbers Might Not Mean What You Think They Mean. Mastodon’s growth in the last month has been extraordinarily fast – but just how fast? Did the number of users jump up to 2.5 million or 8 million in the month or so since Musk took over Twitter? Both those numbers for current users are swirling around. (more)

Robin Sloan: A year of new avenues. It’s so pow­er­fully obvi­ous to me, it might as well be writ­ten in ten-foot let­ters of flame: the plat­forms of the last decade are done...we all have a new opportunity. ­Here’s my exhortation: Let 2023 be a year of experimen­ta­tion and invention! Let it come from the edges, the margins, the provinces, the marshes! THIS MEANS YOU! (more)

Robin Sloan: Visions. This newsletter is a fun one, with lots to explore and think about. First, I’ll review my upcoming releases, then share some interesting work from other people. I’ll also describe a recent encounter that I found both alluring and unnerving. (more)

Robin Sloan: The lost thread. An industrialist intends to purchase Twitter, Inc. His substantial success launching reusable spaceships does nothing to prepare him for the challenge of building social spaces. (Musk Buys Twitter) (more)

structure of peer-managed organization to share/reduce costs of an activity (more)

aka worker-CoOperative (more)

Employee Stock Ownership Program (more)

A version of a New Economy that embraces Slack? A version that caps virality? (more)